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  • A New Perspective on Human Mobility in the South

    Edited by Rudolf Anich, Jonathan Crush, Susanne Melde, John O. Oucho ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers innovative insights on South–South human mobility. It features a collection of papers that highlight often overlooked mobility patterns among and within regions in the global South as well as address critical realities faced by South-South migrants.This publication thoroughly investigates key issues of the migration debate, spanning from the terminological and contextual meaning ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    by Andrei Reznikov ...
    There is not a single book that gives a systematic description of George Orwells views on language. Andrei Reznikovs work is the first attempt to fill this gap. Reznikov puts together the pieces of Orwells language puzzle, scattered throughout his essays, diaries, letters, radio talks and fiction, and proposes the Newspeak model as Orwells way to formulate his theory. The theory is then tested ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

    by Nina Bandelj ...
    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Internet Gambling

    Current Research Findings and Implications

    by Sally Gainsbury ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling. Global Internet gambling expenditure is predicted to reach US$33.6 billion in 2011. This is higher than worldwide movie box office revenues and represents 9% of the international gambling market. The rapid increase in expenditure of 354% since 2003 has occurred despite Internet gambling being prohibited in several key markets, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Demographic Angst

    Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s

    by Alan Nadel ...
    Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor.Demographic Angst argues that mandated normativity—as a political agenda and a social ethic—precluded explicit ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Childbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s

    A Life Course That Brought Unintended Low Fertility

    by Yukiko Senda ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitative and quantitative data analyses. Among the many books explaining the decline in fertility, this ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Diverging Destinies

    The Japanese Case

    by James M. Raymo, Miho Iwasawa ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the context of ideas articulated in research on “diverging destinies” and “patterns of disadvantage” as part of the second demographic ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Against the Stream

    Reflections of an Unconventional Demographer

    by William Petersen ...
    With the insight and clarity that mark all of Petersen's writings, Against the Stream brings together reflections of an unconventional demographer. Thirteen essays on various topics become a cohesive unit by virtue of the author's unique point of view, and the understanding of contemporary events he has gathered in his long mastery of demography is evident in this volume.In a brief introduction ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Scotland's Populations from the 1850s to Today

    by Michael Anderson ...
    Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone teaching or writing on modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography. Michael ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging

    Edited by John Piggott, Alan Woodland ...
    Series Book Volume 1A-1B - Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging
    Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began ... Read more

    $260.79 CAD

  • Places in Need

    The Changing Geography of Poverty

    by Scott W. Allard, Scott Allard ...
    Americans think of suburbs as prosperous areas that are relatively free from poverty and unemployment. Yet, today more poor people live in the suburbs than in cities themselves. In Places in Need, social policy expert Scott W. Allard tracks how the number of poor people living in suburbs has more than doubled over the last 25 years, with little attention from either academics or policymakers. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD